The UKZN Centre for Civil Society (CCS), Health Economics and HIV/AIDS Research Division (HEARD) PhD Scholarship Programme and the DUT Peace Building Programme invite you to a 3 session screening of documentaries examining ‘Non-Violence as a Strategy for Social Change’.

A FORCE MORE POWERFULis about popular movements battling entrenched regimes or military forces with weapons very different from guns and bullets. Strikes, boycotts or other disruptive actions were used as sanctions, as aggressive measures to constrain or punish opponents and to win concessions. Petitions, parades, walkouts and demonstrations roused public support for the resisters. Forms of non-cooperation (such as boycotts, resignations and civil disobedience) helped subvert the operations of government. And direct intervention in the form of sit-ins, nonviolent sabotage and blockades frustrated many rulers’ efforts to subjugate people.